CATR CFP Open Kitchen: Crossing Boundaries with Food and Performance

[Edward Whittall]

Hello,


Sincerest apologies if this has been sent out multiple times. I'm having
trouble with my email account's relationship to the listserve. Hopefully
resolved soon.


A reminder that the deadline for proposals is January 15th. Also, please
pay attention to the separate deadlines for the *pecha kucha *sessions and
the Exploration Gallery that are described in the CAFS CFP which is
attached below.


Happy Holidays.


Ted


Call for Participants – CATR-CAFS Curated Paper Panel



*Open Kitchen: Crossing Boundaries with Food and Performance*



Food is a “boundary object,” one that both borders and transects much of
our lived and academic experience. By occupying these *between* spaces,
food offers opportunities for bridging and/or blurring epistemic and
ontological divides, for underscoring the doing/making aspect of research,
and for decentering the singular actor in research and performance milieus
and refiguring them as diffuse yet interconnected congealments of human and
non-human agency.

 Food and Performance scholars have long been focused on what Barbara
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett has called the “conceptual convergence” of the
two: *doing,
behaving, and showing.* While the discourse has been rich, it has yet to
mature as a legitimate and active sub-field of Performance Studies. This
should not be surprising given the deeply rooted and important relationship
that Performance Studies bears to modern Theatre Studies. But, as
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett has argued, the divide between food consumption and
theatrical space is a very modern construction. We ask: How might we
trouble these boundaries?


We invite scholarship that highlights some of the ways in which Performance
Studies and Food Studies both occupy similar scholarly spaces of
thinking-doing, as well as the value that each realm has in interpreting
and interrogating the other. How can such work support reconfigurations of
power and social or political boundaries? How can the materiality of food
and the built environment help us reimagine our relationship with the
*other*? What might performances with and on food reveal about the nature
of our individual and collective identities, as Canadians, as eaters, as
researchers? This panel offers an opportunity for scholars of any
discipline to reimagine the contours of food and performance, not as
homogenous and bounded disciplines, but as dynamic constellations of
scholarly practices.




Paper proposals should not exceed 250 words and should be emailed to
ewhittal at yorku.ca. Please indicate any audio-visual, or culinary,
technology needed for presentations.
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